Our Tuscan Tortellini Salad Is the Ultimate Party Pleaser

I was at work drinks the other night, telling a colleague about a pasta salad I had made that day, and a colleague interjected with "What's a pasta salad?" You can imagine my disbelief. She had "heard" of macaroni salad, but couldn't exactly picture anything else.

Ethan Calabrese

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As someone who grew up hating my family's macaroni salad tradition at Father's Day and other summer gatherings, I've made it a mission to create new takes on the summer staple, with recipes that don't rely on mayo for flavor and do combine unexpected flavor combos and ingredients.

Ethan Calabrese

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So now it's my mission to get my colleague Brooke to LOVE this dish. It's hard not to: Cheese tortellini stands in for traditional noodles, which is a real game-changer. We toss those with an Italian mix of sundried tomatoes, spinach, Parm, and (my favorite) salami. I also made this with prosciutto and it was delicious; chopped cooked bacon would work too.